Final Alien: Earth Trailer Shows Alien Life Forms Unleashed

FX and Hulu’s upcoming prequel series Alien: Earth has been a long time coming. Set to premiere on August 12, 2025, the streaming services have released one final trailer (and a fuller synopsis) ahead of the first showrunner Noah Hawley has described as “chilling” and “thoughtful.” The new footage cements the show’s dual tone, mixing meditative, almost existential moments with jump-scare-heavy sci-fi horror: glimpses of an alien ship in space, piles of corpses in a dimly lit spaceship hallway, panicked humans covered in blood running for their lives, and in the distance, a dark, ominous figure, a xenomorph slithering in the shadows.

Hawley, who is known for his patient storytelling, has previously stated that the tone and mythology of Alien: Earth will be closer to Ridley Scott’s original Alien (1979) than the tone of later prequels like Prometheus (2012) or Alien: Covenant. An eight-episode series set in 2120, or two years before the original film, Alien: Earth takes place shortly, one in which powerful corporate interests are vying for the next prize, and the next level, in the most fundamental human pursuit of all: the continuation of life, possibly life eternal.

Into this near-future setting comes one of the most colossal leaps in artificial evolution: a humanoid robot with the mind of an actual human.

Earth in 2120 is a strange new world. It’s not ruled by individual countries or governments, but rather by five mega corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. It’s the Corporate Era, the near-future, when the divide between human and technology is a thing of the past. Cyborgs, or humans with artificial augmentations, work side by side with synthetics, humanoid robots with AI-powered brains. But the divide between human and machine is a paradigm set to be disrupted by one of the most important technological advancements in recent memory: the hybrid.

Led by Founder and CEO Prodigy, the young, brash CEO of the Prodigy Corporation, is at the forefront of developing humanoid robots with actual human consciousness within them. The first of these so-called hybrids, “Wendy,” is a prototype humanoid robot with the mind of a child in an adult body, played by Sydney Chandler. “Wendy” is created to be a part of the increasing corporate rivalry to develop the key to humanity’s next stage: immortality.

That is, until Prodigy City is rocked by the crash of a Weyland-Yutani spaceship. Wendy and a group of other hybrids find themselves making contact with unknown alien organisms and creatures, far more lethal and dangerous than humanity ever imagined.

FX and Hulu’s Alien: Earth Has a Star-Studded Cast

Besides Chandler, who will be the lead of Alien: Earth, Hawley has assembled an A-list cast to round out his series of TV events. They include Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, Wendy’s synthetic trainer and mentor; Alex Lawther as soldier CJ; Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, an unscrupulous CEO; Essie Davis as Dame Silvia; Adarsh Gourav as Slightly; Kit Young as Tootles; David Rysdahl as Arthur; Babou Ceesay as Morrow; Jonathan Ajayi as Smee; Erana James as Curly; Lily Newmark as Nibs; Diem Camille as Siberian; and Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins.

FX and Hulu have been strategically dropping clues and footage about Alien: Earth. The network and streaming service first surprised fans in January when they dropped a surprise short teaser during the NFL’s AFC Championship game. Shot completely from the point-of-view of a xenomorph, the clip showed the creature racing down a spaceship hallway just as it hurtled towards its destination: Earth, a planet the alien ship was on a direct crash course with. There was no context for the scene, just an alien’s point of view rapidly moving through a spaceship and towards an exploding Earth.

Last month, Hulu and FX dropped the first full trailer, which more definitively outlined the plot of Alien: Earth, though still leaving plenty of room for interpretation. The clip opened with a scene of Wendy’s creation in 2120, on a space colony dubbed Neverland Research Island. In the trailer, Wendy is described as “prototyping consciousness in a humanoid form.” She is, Chandler’s character says, “the body of an adult and the consciousness of a child.”

When a nearby alien spaceship crash-lands on the island, Wendy volunteers to investigate the unexplored ship, perhaps in the hopes of returning to Earth, the planet of her birth. Instead of a scientific treasure, the ship inside holds nothing but carnage. Dead bodies, strange creatures, and wreckage from another world. Littering the interior were five alien life forms, all dead, all unknown to humans. But it is a decision completely in line with the series’ predecessor. As is tradition with Alien films, the bodies are quickly brought back to a lab for study.

Humanity’s familiar hubris collides with true apex-level predation in the universe. As the final trailer makes clear, the focus of Alien: Earth will be less on action spectacle and more on creating an atmosphere of dread, building to how both corporate greed and human ambition inexorably lay the groundwork for catastrophe.

Alien: Earth is less than a month away from its premiere. The new final trailer for the show positions itself as both a love letter to the original film and an expansion of its already thriving universe. It’s to be seen if Wendy’s naïveté will survive the horrors to come, and if humanity will survive its own worst instincts when Alien: Earth begins streaming on FX and Hulu on August 12.